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Finland
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Finland
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Aïn Diab, Casablanca, Grand Casablanca, Morocco
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Snow Village, Lainiotie, Kittilä, Finland
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Belfast, United Kingdom
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Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
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Copenhagen, Denmark
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Dublin, Ireland
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New York, NY, United States
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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Rome, Italy
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Santa Claus Village, Rovaniemi, Finland
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Stockholm, Sweden
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Washington, DC, United States
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Jul 21, 2015
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I discovered that I had achieved a Class Two, Division One 2.1 Bachelor's degree in International Development Studies with Spanish when I received my assessment results on 10th July 2015. I'll graduate on 5th November 2... -
Apr 17, 2015
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On 18th April 2015 I did a colour run with Run or Dye at Platt Fields Park in Manchester. My friend Jen and I had tried to train for it, but hadn't been very successful. Our team name was 'Those four sweetcheeks' because... -
Apr 2, 2015
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Maria and I arrived in Helsinki on 3rd April 2015. The cruise on M/S Baltic Queen to Tallinn, Estonia, left at 18:00 on 5th April. I was surprised that nobody asked to see my passport, but Maria explained that this was because both ... -
Sep 26, 2014
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Maria and I took the Onnibus from Jyväskylä and arrived in Helsinki at around 09:00 am on 27th September 2014. We had a quick breakfast in a nearby shopping centre and then walked to Radisson Blu Seaside Hotel, where we le... -
Aug 14, 2014
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On 15th August 2014 I was on holiday with my friend Fatima in Santorini, a Greek island (See 'Visit Greek islands'). I booked a scuba dive with the Mediterranean Dive Club for 15:30 - 17:30, which I was really nervous about, espe... -
Aug 10, 2014
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On 11th August we arrived at Santorini port at 12:00 on a delayed SeaJets ferry (See 'Visit Athens, Greece'), so we missed our 22:30 hotel transfer to Irineos Studios in Perissa, in the east of the Island. We calle... -
Aug 5, 2014
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On 6th August 2014 at 04:30 I woke up and at 05:13 I left the house to catch 05:40 Star Inn bus to arrive at 05:57 at Reading Station. At 06:22 I caught the train which arrived in London Paddington at 07:10 and I took the underground to ... -
Jul 17, 2014
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I caught the 6:30 bus from Reading Calcot on 18/07/2014, which was due to arrive in London Victoria at 8:00. However, it arrived about 20 minutes late. I then checked in at Victoria and boarded the 10:00 bus due to arrive in Paris at 18:... -
Jun 16, 2014
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On Tuesday 17th June, after spending the previous day in Marrakech, my friend Jess and I got up at 7:00 because our desert guide, Abdul, was supposed to be collecting us at 7:30. As he was bit late I was worried he wouldn't turn... -
Oct 11, 2013
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I worked in an English Language Assistant at a secondary school in Melilla, a Spanish colony on the north coast of Africa for 8 months for the third year of my degree in International Development Studies and Spanish. Technically I w... -
Dec 16, 2012
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When I went to Finland on 17th December 2012 I stayed in Kylpylähotelli Rantasipi Eden spa in Nokia. I tried an ordinary 80 degree electric sauna and found it strange because everybody is naked and it is&nbs... -
Dec 16, 2012
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I met Maria and Julia and some other Finns at the University of Chester in 2011. It was my first year at university and their ERASMUS year. Through them I learnt about Finnish culture and I wanted to experience it myself, so I first... -
Aug 18, 2012
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Me and Maria had be planning to do this for a while. We had an invitation to a house party and we decided we would make skittles vodka in preparation for this on 19th August 2012. We bought sour skittles and separated the pink and p... -
Aug 6, 2012
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I went to Alton Towers on 7th August 2012 and decided I wanted to keep my hair dry on the water rides, so I took a shower cap with me. The shower cap was lime green with a duck beak and a pair of eyes on the front. I wore the shower... -
Jul 14, 2012
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Louise, Maria and Nicola and I decided to attempt to take a trolley through a McDonald's Drive Thru on 15th July 2012. We tried one lane, but the staff didn't respond through the intercom, so we tried the other and they... -
Jul 5, 2012
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Maria randomly bought it for me on 6th July 2012 when we were in Chester because she knew I wanted to try it. It tasted really sweet but towards the end it was a bit too sickly. I would eat another one, though! -
Jun 4, 2012
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I went jogging with Maria at night on 5th June 2012 and after a while we came across a golf course. It was sunset and the place looked really beautiful. We noticed a hill in the middle of the golf course (too big to be part of the g... -
Apr 13, 2012
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I went to Scotland 11th-15h April 2012 with Maria, Julia and Linda. Before we went I joked (with a very slight element of seriousness) that we should take our bikinis and swim in Loch Ness. We had a look on Youtube and actually foun... -
Aug 31, 2011
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I visited Maria in Germany for 2 weeks in September 2011. One night I had a dream in which there was both German and English people. I spoke to the English people in English and to the Germans in German, therefore I had a bilingual dream... -
Feb 27, 2009
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I was in Air Cadets and I was offered to opportunity to learn to fly a plane at RAF Benson on 28th February 2009. I was quite nervous after running through how to use a parachute effectively and was expecting the worst. However, the expe...